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Object Detection with TensorFlow Lite and Xamarin.Forms

Austen — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:36:06 +0000

Creating a Garden Defense System Using Tflite My Mom has a garden and chickens. Around the fenced-in garden is a parameter of bark and shrubs. The chickens love foraging in the bark and can easily kick and scratch several cubic feet of it out into the field within minutes. When they free-ranged, my Mom always kept…

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Microsoft Development Technologies Demystified

Joshua — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:30:01 +0000

Crash Courses in Current Development Technologies Watch our free videos for a crash course on current development technologies. Mark Michaelis speaks at IntelliTect’s recent Visual Studio 2019 event. Last month, we held an event to provide updates and training on the latest development technologies from Microsoft. We’d like to share the content. Click the links…

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Xamarin.Forms 4 and Its Time-saving New Features (Video)

Kevin Bost — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:11:08 +0000

What’s New in Xamarin.Forms 4 Shell, Hot Reload, Hot Restart and Visual are just four of the new features in Xamarin.Forms 4 that will simplify and drastically reduce development time. Check out my full talk on Xamarin at IntelliTect’s 2019 event. Xamarin is Microsoft’s arm for mobile development. It does more than that as well,…

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Video: Is Xamarin Forms the Right Choice for Your Next App?

Joshua — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:25:04 +0000

Perks of Using Xamarin Forms Using Xamarin Forms is a quick win according to Kevin Bost, Xamarin certified senior developer at IntelliTect and C# instructor at Eastern Washington University. Xamarin is Microsoft’s platform for building mobile applications. Using a shared C# codebase, developers can build android and IOS apps at the same time using the…

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Unit Testing With Xamarin Forms

IntelliTect — Tue, 30 May 2017 16:40:42 +0000

Exploring Xamarin Forms In a recent application that IntelliTect developed for a client, we were tasked with building a Xamarin forms application that supported Windows, Android, and iOS. Due to the cross-platform support inherent with using Xamarin, a large majority of our code was common amongst all three implementations. As with most cross-platform projects, however,…

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Native Animation Effects in Xamarin.Forms

Kevin Bost — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:49:15 +0000

Exploring Xamarin.Forms Xamarin.Forms (XF) provides a cross platform API for doing animations. This makes it very easy to do simple animations of XF elements. There is, however, a downside. The XF animations do not make use of native platform APIs, rather they animate properties on the XF elements. This can cause significant overhead, since each…

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Xamarin Forms: “BindablePicker”

IntelliTect — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:10:12 +0000

Solution to Absence of BindablePicker From Xamarin Forms One of the controls missing from Xamarin Forms is a “BindablePicker” that allows you to dynamically bind an ItemsSource and SelectedItem from your view model. Fortunately, the Xamarin forums provide a solution to this problem found here: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/30801/xamarin-forms-bindable-picker The original implementation of this BindablePicker worked great as…

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MultiBinding in Xamarin.Forms

Kevin Bost — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:24:31 +0000

A Guide to Using the Current Xamarin.Forms Framework The current release of Xamarin.Forms does not contain implementation for a MultiBinding object. For those of us who have a strong WPF background, this is a feature that would be very beneficial. With a little work, we can implement our MultiBinding class using the current Xamarin.Forms framework.…

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